Silence, always my fortress, sometimes my prison

I'm a person of the mountains and the open paddocks and the big empty sky, that's me, and I knew if I spent too long away from all that I'd die; I don't know what of, I just knew I'd die.

We kill all the caterpillars, then complain there are no butterflies.

I didn't confess how wrecked I was. Let them keep thinking I was Superwoman if they wanted. I knew the truth.

The only true test of friendship is the time your friend spends on you.

My survival was up to me. I had nothing and I had no one. What I did have, I told myself, was my mind, my imagination, my memory, my feelings, my spirit. These were important and powerful things.

All these words, words like 'evil' and 'vicious', they meant nothing to Nature. Yes, evil was a human invention.

I live in the light, But carry my dark with me.

The Bible just said ‘Thou shalt not kill’, then told hundreds of stories of people killing each other and becoming heroes, like David with Goliath.

There are some things that once you've lost, you never get back. Innocence is one. Love is another. I guess childhood is a third.

At that age you think boys have as much personality as coat hangers and, you don't notice their looks. Then you grow up.

I don't want to be in love but you're makin' me

You only deserve what you make yourself worthy of.

Wiggle like a stick, wobble like a duck, that's what you do when you do the Hucklebuck.

You are a principal work, a fragment of [Goddess herself], you have in yourself a part of [her]. Why then are you ignorant of your high birth?

And shade the violets, That they may bind the moss in leafy nets.

I never confused what I had with what I was.

We see ourselves as first helping to open up markets to competition.

Books were like old friends, with their worn covers and well-thumbed pages.

First teach a person to develop to the point of his limitation and then-pfft!-break the limitation.

Serve you right if something did get you, you useless lot of cry-babies!